Another Reason Not To Shoplift From Wal-Mart…

In addition to severe beatings and harassment from a team of hungry lawyers, Wal-Mart won’t think twice about humiliating a shoplifter in the press. 

Our guess is that Wal-Mart would have wanted the alleged criminal identified, but the Cleveland Plain-Dealer vetoed it?

Cleveland: Shoplifter at Steelyard Drive Walmart had hemorrhoid cream, suppositories [Cleveland.com]

SHOPLIFTING, STEELYARD DRIVE:  A 25-year-old East Boulevard man faces petty theft charges after workers at Walmart told police May 21 that he tried to steal two packages of hemorrhoid cream, a box of suppositories and a tube of warming massage oil from the store. The merchandise was valued at $28.

SHOPLIFTING, STEELYARD DRIVE:  A 51-year-old Horace Court man faces petty theft charges after workers at Walmart told police May 19 he tried to steal six Secret women’s deodorants from the store valued at $30.

Yikes.

(Seriously, though: does any other company get $28 shoplifting incidents written up in the newspaper? My guess is maybe, but not with Wal-Mart’s batting average. Check the rest of the crimes on the crime roundup page...there’s no doubt that the lead headline and Wal-Mart stories are BY FAR the most minor of the bunch....)

Posted by Eric Bull on Monday, June 01, 2009

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